Hey Taskemann,

I also do prepping, but not the Doomsday Preppers way. I prepare by having extra water on hand, MREs, canned food, plenty of batteries, candles, dry food (rice, pasta, grains), battery-operated radios, and I am in the process of getting a bug out bag. I may not survive a nuclear war, but I am better prepared than most folks I know.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

JR

You are prepared for the future? WHAT? Are you stupid or something?

HEY. People don't seem to notice what is happening in the US! OH YEAH, and the UK! OH YEAH, and also SWEDEN! And, let's see.... France, germany, Greece, Italy, NORWAY, denmark, spain, etc.... They refer to 1929 but refuse to realize what it REALLY was. So YEAH, we are teetering on life as we know it. I plan to buy gold on weakness and if my investments take off. I have foreign currency, and can communicate somewhat in several languages.

Sadly, I can't prepare too much. I travel all over LIGHT. BUT, at home, I have a lot of bullets, a couple guns, enough food to last for several months, enough water to last for several weeks. On the road, I COULD last maybe a week. Laws vary, etc... so no gun/ammo. Where I am now, it is illegal to own a gun, at least like I have.

Steve

I've got enough bread and tuna till Tuesday. Does that count?

I also am a prepper but not too much

lets see

I left the U.S. and now live in costa rica

I just finished installing a hybrid solar/wind system

building right now a solar pump well

and next year will be our aquaponics system

oh yea

I am also armed to the teeth..

I am a Floridian.

Because of hurricanes, we are all preppers ( well any one here for more then a few years )

I am now more of a prepper then ever before, because of my son.
When ( if ) the shiit ever hits the fan, I am good to go.
I have lost two houses due to hurricanes. One in Miami, one in Daytona.

I know first hand how bad things get when your neighbors dont have food or water for a week.
I lost a dog once ... I think some one ate him.

Prepping is not taboo. I don't prep for weird, conspiratorial reasons or zombies or anything like that. I prep for natural disaster to a small degree. I have a large amount of water stored for drinking and livestock in case the electricity goes. We have a well with an electric pump, so when the electricity goes, the water goes too.

We have a propane stove and propane to cook on. I don't currently store canned or dried food, but I have thought that I might get some of that Wise dehydrated food. We have chickens so we have a constant supply of fresh eggs, and even chicken meat, if necessary.

Small things ... nothing drastic.

There's an old proverb which goes something like this:
The fool looks ahead, sees danger coming, yet does not duck out of the way.

Adversity mixed with opportunity. This is the human experience. It is prudent to see both. And live in the balance.

I wouldn't call myself a hardcore prepper, but I'm ready for a lot of stuff. Actually - I don't know why doomsdayers bother to prep since their scenarios are always that human life will be wiped off the planet. Do they think they'll be the only people, or almost the only ones in 7 bil to survive it? That's way freaking optimistic huh?

Anyone who's not ready for natural disasters of whichever type hit their area is kinda crazy. If I lived where there were strong possibilities of floods, about the first thing you'd find in my pack would be a floatation device - boat, raft, etc. Where I am there are fires. I keep a bug-out bag handy.

I don't call that being a "prepper". I just call it common sense.

I'm prepared, but I'm not really a prepper that hoards items for survival. I've taught myself over the years how to survive with what the land provides. I can make a fire without matches or a lighter, I can sterilize water sources, and I can find edibles in almost any environment.

I love watching youtubes on non-traditional ways of capturing and finding food.

Here are some I've tried that work...

Making a Crawdad Trap - YouTube
Fish Trap (Fish caught on Camera) - YouTube
How to Catch Worms with Walnuts - YouTube
How to Snare a Squirrel Using a Squirrel Ramp - YouTube

My goal is to be able to make it through the aftermath of a natural disaster for 90 days. I learned to can meat by watching Youtube videos. Who knew one could can meat that would last on a shelf in the pantry for a year?! I didn't. I now have about two months worth stored. And yes, I have eaten some already and survived.. lol. I have one 55 gal barrel of treated water that will keep fresh for up to 5 years. And am adding more. I have tarps stored in the attic to cover the roof of my house if needed. Medical supplies, cooking stove/fuel, batteries, etc.

The government, with all the good intentions it might have, will not be able to help the citizens, to the extent needed, should a disaster occur. Just look back at the past ones as a learning tool. I figure the more I'm prepared, the fewer resources I'm taking that can be given to someone else. And should someone try and partake themselves of something I have, that they don't... well, I'm prepared for that too....

One of my prepping tools is to have family/friends in as many places as possible in case of need to bug out. We've seen Fema in action twice now (Katrina and Sandy), and I don't want to deal with that nightmare.

Seems that the thanks button is random in here now.

Claude - you have a very good point about guns. People get killed when they point them, then don't have what it takes to shoot a human. Knives are just as dangerous (and more painful) for self defense. If someone takes it away from you, you're steak.

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More people are killed by knives each year than rifles.

Those TV shows where the guy is holding the knife up and dancing around ready to fight are trash. Most of the time on the street you won't know someone has a knife until it is right against you. If you know the guy has a knife before he's even close enough to be dangerous - he's an idiot.

Canned and dried foods only go so far. Heirloom organic seeds should be a part of anyone's supply list.

Actually, I have the thought that people should be buying these seeds and throwing some that will grow wild in their own area around on public lands whenever they can. If we had forests of food growing, we'd not be so dependent on the machine in the first place. I know in some areas people are being arrested for growing food in their own yard and that is pretty scary. If the bottom fell out, the gov might decide to do an IRS on us and refuse food to factions they find hostile to a takeover. Food and fuel. If you can keep a source of food and fuel, and can defend it or hide it, you're ahead of a vast majority of the population.

Preppers are mentally ill, IMHO.

Nowhere in all of recorded history can anyone give ONE example of how food, shelter, or water kept someone alive, in bad times or during good times.

Nearsighted is okay. It's always easier to hit something that's just a little over arms-reach anyhow. If he's a ninja.........he wouldn't be dancing around swinging his knife, now would he? Displays of weaponry don't fit real well into the stealth mentality.

The plot dissipates into a watery, unpalatable broth.

Claude - you deleted your post and made me look crazy. I don't need help to look crazy. Don't do that any more. okay?